Usatove culture flourished west and northwest of the Black Sea in more than 50 sites.

It also displays items made of metal, such as arsenical bronze and silver, which suggests contacts with the North Caucasus as well as Anatolia.

In Ukraine, Usatove culture sites are predominantly located in the Dniester-Danube interfluve.

The two largest Usatove archaeological sites in Ukraine, Usatove-Velykyj Kuyalnik and Mayaky,[4] contain kurgan and ground cemeteries (necropoli).

Within the Kurgan hypothesis, the Usatove culture represents the domination of native Cucuteni–Trypillia agriculturalists by Indo-European peoples from the steppe.